Cuff-button holder



T. L. MATTSON.

CUFF BUTTON HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.. 26, 1918. 1,360,129, Patented Nov. 23, 1920 f ZIM/vanter TYoK'o L. MAfrTsoN, or rAswEerN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

CTIEF-BUTTON HOLDER.

Speeication of Letters Patent. Patented NOV 23 i s` r l Application led March 26, `1918. Serial No.` 224,863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Trono L. MAr'isoN, a citizen of Canada, residing at Paswegin, in the `Province of Saskatchewan and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cuit-Button Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a safety clasp or holder Jfor cuff buttons as, for example, of the link type, to` provide against loss oi? abuttonin the event that one end or head thereof should become d isengaged :from the button holeat one side oi. the cuff, and in this connection to provide a device of this type which may be readily attached and detached, and which when attached remains in engagement by inherent spring action. j j

i Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the iollowing description, it being understood that changes in form, proportion andA details of construction may be resorted to, within the scope oi the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of theinventlcn.

In the drawings j Figure l is an end view of a cuff show` ing a button of ordinary type engaged there with, the safety clasp,illus`trating one ernbodiment of the invention, being shown applied thereto in the operative position,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the clasp.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the ter- `ininal lobes or rings collapsed by terminal pressure, as by the thumb and nger of the operators hand, to spread or separate the jaws, located intermediately of the lobes or rings, for engagement with the shank of `a cuff button.

In the illustrated form of the invention, it will be a matter of convenience to refer to the same as in the general shape of a ligure eight or B-shaped, the same preferably being constructed oi' a single strip of wire or the equivalent thereof, and also being of a spring material so as to yieldingly maintain the general form indicated and resume such Yform alter having been distorted as by terminal pressure toY collapse the lobes or rings l0 and 111, in the act o applying the device to, or removing the same from, the `shanlr of a buttonwhlch in Fig. l is illustrated at 12 in the normal or usual engagement with` button holes in the cuff `13.

l'lIhecorresponding sides 10a and l1 and 1Q .and ll" are extended beyond the point o i intersection of the sides of eachlobe or ring, and are bowed in opposite directions to iorm inwardly facing concaved or looped jaws ltand 15 respectively; These jaws are designed to clasp the shank of thebutton' snuglywhenthe lobesor rings are in their normal position or unrestrained, and yet by pressing upon theextremities of the clasp in the directions indicated bv the darts in Fig. 3 the lobes or `rings are collapsed or distorted to cause `a separation oil the jaws which permits oftheir engagement with thel shank of thecufl' button, at the inner suriace or' the cuff, after one button head, as for example the smaller one, has

been inserted through the button hole in one side of; the cuff. Obviously in the event thatthe smaller headoiiythe cu button should become disengaged from the other side of the cuff, the clasp, belng resiliently held in engagement with the shank, will prevent the loss of the button. I

What is claimed is l. safety clasp for cnif buttons, of `substantially the form of a ligure eight with the corresponding sides of the lobesor rings 1 thereof extended beyond the intersection and looped to produce facing concaved jaws.

2. A safety clasp for cuff buttons, consist,

ing o f a substantially j-shaped spring strip or wire andprovided between the lobes or rings thereof with separable facing jaws carried respectively by the corresponding sides of said lobes or rings. i 3. A safety clasp for cu' buttons, consistmg oi a substantially 8-shaped spring strip or wire comprising inherently expansible lobes or rings, the corresponding sides of which are extended beyond the `intersection to form facing jaws, separable by the forcible compression of the lobes or rin s.

In testimony whereof I affix my s1 nature.

TYCKO L. MA ON. 

